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Dreaminess & Hate. The program included selections from Weill's later works written for the Broadway stage-Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus. But what the crowd had turned out to hear was a concert version of the Marc Blitzstein adaptation of Threepenny Opera, which last week marked its 1,200th performance at the off-Broadway Theater de Lys. Dressed in a royal blue frock, her carroty blonde hair drawn loosely back with combs, Lenya appeared in the role she created in Berlin in 1928 and made famous-that of Jenny, the bitter, dream-haunted London prostitute...
...Bohemia and Sicilia by suspending representations of two different suns overhead, with a Damoclean sword for the trial scene and a double font for the final reconciliation scene. The sheep-shearing festival, with the whole stage and its inhabitants bathed in garlands, is a delight to the eye. Marc Blitzstein has composed rather modern music--appropriately dissonant or consonant as the situation warrants. The backstage instrumentalists are not yet wholly at ease in their parts, but a few more performances will fix that...
Some of the best-known contemporary U.S. composers-Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Marc Blitzstein, Virgil Thomson-are tied to a woman's apron strings. The woman: their sometime teacher, Nadia Boulanger, for years head of the American Conservatory of Music at Fontainebleau, first woman to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra (as a guest in 1938), and the world's most renowned teacher of composition...
...making modest profits ever since. Flusser has more than tripled the original $65-a-week salaries of the six young members of the troupe. After Dinner has been successful because it staged sprightly productions of such new works as British Composer Gerald Cockshott's Apollo and Persephone, Marc Blitzstein's Triple Sec. The troupe scored a critical success in an appearance at Edinburgh last year (TIME, Sept. 10), is currently preparing to open at Manhattan's off-Broadway Phoenix Theatre with the first U.S. performance of Offenbach's 66, a 40-minute spoof of Austrians...
There are now no less than 17 recorded versions of Mack the Knife spinning across the U.S., and most of the horror has gone out of it. U.S. Composer-Author Marc Blitzstein has effectively translated the Berlin slang into American, but as Satchmo growls the words, the listener is amused rather than chilled by the corpse sinking into the river, weighted down by what Armstrong insists on calling "ceee-ments...